Before Roe vs. Wade, this doctor worked at an ‘infected abortions’ ward & L.A. This is what he saw

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From L.A. Times Studios: Six decades later, Dr. Edward Kaufman still recalls the horrors he saw while working on a septic abortion ward in Los Angeles. Many of the women in the unit had nearly died from attempted self-induced abortions. He predicts a return of the units — and gravely ill women — in a post-Roe future.